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enMaking airport PreCheck free could save TSA millions: reporthttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/making-airport-precheck-free-could-save-tsa-millions-report
<div class="field-item even">Colin Robertson, CS @ ILLINOIS</div><p><em>Chicago Tribune</em> - A study from CS Professor <a href="/directory/profile/shj">Sheldon Jacobson</a> shows that making PreCheck free for all travelers could save the TSA millions of dollars. Additional Coverage: <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2016/12/05/illinois-sheldon-jacobson-argues-for-free-precheck.html" target="_blank">Chicago Business Journal</a>, <a href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/12/05/study-finds-making-precheck-free-could-save-tsa-millions/" target="_blank">CBS Chicago</a>, <a href="http://abc7chicago.com/travel/study-says-tsa-could-save-money-by-waiving-precheck-program-fees/1640359/" target="_blank">ABC 7 Chicago</a>.</p>
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</ul>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:56:44 +0000colinr3500 at http://cs.illinois.eduTSA could save money by waiving PreCheck fees for frequent travelers, study findshttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/tsa-could-save-money-waiving-precheck-fees-frequent-travelers-study-finds
<div class="field-item even"> Liz Ahlberg Touchstone, Illinois News Bureau</div><div class="blog-post-info">
<p>There is an easy way to reduce lines at the airport, increase security and save the Transportation Security Administration money, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers: waive the $85 fee for frequent fliers to enroll in the TSA PreCheck program, which allows pre-screened, verified travelers to go through expedited security at airports.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/jacobson_sheldon161011-47-m%20fav.jpg" class="colorbox"><img alt="The government could save money and make air travel safer by offering free enrollment in TSA PreCheck to frequent travelers, according to a new study by Illinois computer science professor Sheldon H. Jacobson. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/jacobson_sheldon161011-47-m%20fav-350x233.jpg" style="float: left; width: 350px; height: 233px;" width="350" height="233" /></a>The study by Professor <a href="/directory/profile/shj">Sheldon H. Jacobson</a> and graduate students Arash Khatabi and Ge Yu calculated the cost of extensive screening compared with expedited screening in terms of workforce labor hours and equipment. They found that costs saved by frequent travelers using expedited security exceeded the cost of waiving their enrollment fees for PreCheck.</p>
<p>“This is an easy case where spending some money will save the federal government more money,” Jacobson said. “There is a transition period – the savings are realized over the first five years, and then in perpetuity. So if the federal government is looking for a way to save money, giving TSA PreCheck at no cost to high-volume, high-value fliers makes sense.”</p>
<p>The study, published in the Journal of Transportation Security, looks at multiple scenarios of how many people would have to enroll at different travel frequencies for the fee waiver to be cost-efficient. The researchers found that the average travel frequency of those enrolling would have to be six round trips, or 12 screenings a year.</p>
<p>“We only look at the direct cost savings in labor and equipment. We don’t even talk about the savings in time of the passengers who would no longer have to wait hours in line,” Jacobson said. “That could add tens or hundreds of millions of dollars a year, which would be a bonus to the economy. More people could decide to fly, because of the time and cost savings.”</p>
<p>The benefits would extend beyond the cost. According to Jacobson, an expert in aviation security, submitting every passenger to heightened security actually has the adverse affect of making air travel less safe by diluting resources that should be focused on high-risk, unknown passengers. TSA PreCheck reduces the number of unknowns by pre-screening passengers. A traveler who wishes to enroll in PreCheck pays an $85 fee to be subjected to a background check, and if nothing of concern is found, receives PreCheck certification for five years.</p>
<p>“The strength of PreCheck is the background check. It’s not the item that we’re trying to stop, it’s the person with ill intent who we’re trying to stop,” Jacobson said. “PreCheck vets people and says, ‘These people are not likely to be a problem to the air system.’ They make sure you are who you say you are, and that your background shows no evidence that you are going to cause a problem.”</p>
<p>Getting more travelers enrolled in PreCheck – particularly those who fly three or more round trips in a year – would produce the desired benefits, Jacobson said, yet enrollment has lagged far behind projected numbers. Waiving the fee might entice more travelers to enroll.</p>
<p>“We are saying to TSA and to the decision-makers in Washington, ‘It’s worth it to invest that money because you’re going to get it back. It will facilitate more people going through checkpoints more quickly, make the system more secure and produce a cost savings for the TSA. It’s a win-win-win situation,’” he said.</p>
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<p><strong>Editor’s notes</strong>: To contact Sheldon H. Jacobson, call 217-244-7275; email: <a href="mailto:shj@illinois.edu">shj@illinois.edu</a>.</p>
<p>The paper “When should TSA PreCheck be offered at no cost to travelers?” is available <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12198-016-0176-z?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst">online</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12198-016-0176-z?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst"><abbr title="Digital Object Identifier">DOI</abbr>: 10.1007/s12198-016-0176-z</a></p>
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<div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, December 5, 2016 - 16:30</span></div><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://cs.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/images/newfeedimages/jacobson_sheldon161011-47-square.png" width="300" height="300" alt="Sheldon Jacobson" title="Sheldon Jacobson" /></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/8">Faculty</a></div><ul class="links inline"><li class="addtoany first last"><span><span class="a2a_kit a2a_target addtoany_list" id="da2a_2">
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</ul>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:35:40 +0000colinr3499 at http://cs.illinois.eduIllinois computer science education project part of national ‘CS for All’ effortshttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/illinois-computer-science-education-project-part-national-cs-all-efforts
<div class="field-item even">Maya Israel, Education at Illinois</div><p>A new commitment in support of Computer Science (CS) Education Week by University of Illinois faculty was announced today in a Fact Sheet by the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/05/fact-sheet-year-action-supporting-computer-science-all" target="_blank">White House</a> and joins with hundreds of other organizations around the country as part of a community effort to raise awareness about computer science at all levels.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/csforall-factsheet-long-december-2016.pdf" target="_blank">Fact Sheet</a> includes a project by Illinois scholars <a href="http://education.illinois.edu/faculty/misrael" target="_blank">Maya Israel</a> (special education), <a href="http://ctrlshift.mste.illinois.edu/about-us/george-reese/" target="_blank">George Reese</a> (Office of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education), and <a href="/directory/profile/c-heeren">Cinda Heeren</a> (Computer Science) that focuses on developing and studying instructional supports for elementary and middle school students with disabilities and other struggling learners during CS and programming instruction. The project is run through their lab, the <a href="http://ctrl.education.illinois.edu/home" target="_blank">Creative Technologies Research Lab</a> (CTRL), which focuses on developing inclusive CS experiences through Universal Design for Learning, balancing explicit instruction and open inquiry, and collaborative problem-solving.</p>
<p>Israel, primary investigator of the project explained, “If we are truly committed to broadening the participation of all learners in CS, we have to also focus on the 6.5 million students with disabilities that attend public K-12 schools.” She continued, “Most of these students are taught alongside their peers in general education classes, so it is imperative that we study the barriers they face in CS education and then tailor instructional experiences that also meet their needs.”</p>
<p>This project relies on close collaborations with partners in both Champaign Unit 4 School District and Cornell Tech in New York City. Champaign superintendent Dr. Judy Wiegand explained, “We truly believe that broad access to computational thinking and coding curriculum inspires students to problem-solve together and think systematically about the world around them. Not only does this transform student learning and create individual opportunities for students in the future, it is a catalyst for a new generation of students to excel in a field where they may have been historically underrepresented, adding tremendous value to the field and to our community.”</p>
<p>This project also dovetails with <a href="https://tech.cornell.edu/" target="_blank">Cornell Tech’s</a> Teacher-in-Residence program, which provides an in-house consultant to help New York City schools implement CS education through professional development for teachers, coaching and curriculum development, also featured in the White House Computer Science for All Fact Sheet.</p>
<p><img alt="CS for All" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/images/cs-for-all-logo.svg" style="float: right; width: 273px; height: 100px;" />Leigh Ann DeLyser is the co-chair of the <a href="http://www.csforall.org/" target="_blank">CSforAll Consortium</a>, a network of computer science education providers, schools, funders and researchers who strive to expand access to computer science education for all K-12 students. She explained, “At the CSforAll Consortium, we believe all students should have access to quality computer science education. This includes our most vulnerable population, students with disabilities. The Consortium's membership needs the work CRLT and others are doing in order to help content providers and school districts know what works for kids."</p>
<p>For more information, please contact:</p>
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<li>Maya Israel at <a href="mailto:misrael@Illinois.edu">misrael@Illinois.edu</a></li>
<li>George Reese at <a href="mailto:reese@Illinois.edu">reese@Illinois.edu</a></li>
<li>Cinda Heeren at <a href="mailto:c-heeren@illinois.edu">c-heeren@illinois.edu</a></li>
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</ul>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:31:53 +0000colinr3498 at http://cs.illinois.eduAlumnus Peng Ong will be featured speaker at fall convocationhttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/alumnus-peng-ong-will-be-featured-speaker-fall-convocation
<div class="field-item even">College of Engineering</div><p>Peng T. Ong, managing partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures, will be the featured speaker at the College of Engineering Fall Convocation on Saturday, December 17.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/Alumnus%20Peng%20Ong.jpg" class="colorbox"><img alt="Peng Ong" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/Alumnus%20Peng%20Ong-275x360.jpg" style="float: right; width: 275px; height: 360px;" width="275" height="360" /></a>Ong (MS, CS '88) is a coder, a successful business founder, an advisor, and most recently, a venture capitalist. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas and a master’s degree from Illinois, Ong worked in engineering and management roles at several companies before co-founding and serving as CTO of Electric Classifieds, which launched Match.com. Match.com became the leading online dating service.</p>
<p>After Match.com, he founded Interwoven, the leading provider of content infrastructure, and one of the originators of the concept of content management systems. It set the standard for world-wide companies, such as General Electric, General Motors, Federal Express, and Cisco Systems.</p>
<p>Interwoven made software to control the development, management, and deployment of business-critical content. It was successful because it did not force users to change the structure of their information. Ong believes information has a natural structure and the storage system should reflect the structure. The company had a peak market cap of $10 billion. Interwoven finally found a home in Hewlett Packard. Today, the businesses Ong created generate annual revenues of over $1 billion in total.</p>
<p>As a native of Singapore and an enthusiastic venture capitalist, he is passionate about growing the Southeast Asia tech industry into a climate similar to Silicon Valley. Today, Ong is a managing partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a tech venture fund focused on post-seed stage companies in Southeast Asia. He shares his valuable insights with young entrepreneurs through mentorship and serving on numerous professional boards.</p>
<p>Peng Ong was inducted into the <a href="http://engineering.illinois.edu/engage/distinguished-alumni-and-friends/hall-of-fame/2016/">Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame</a> in October 2016.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://engineering.illinois.edu/graduation/">College of Engineering Convocation</a> will take place at 1:00 p.m. in the Foellinger Great Hall in Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.</p>
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</ul>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:25:59 +0000colinr3497 at http://cs.illinois.eduU of I receives $1 million for scholarships from Give Something Back Foundationhttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/u-i-receives-1-million-scholarships-give-something-back-foundation
<div class="field-item even">Dave Evensen, College of LAS</div><h3><strong>Founded by an LAS alumnus, national organization makes college a reality for students of modest means </strong></h3>
<p>To say Robert Carr remembers clearly his first college scholarship might be the biggest understatement you’ll hear today. He was a senior at Lockport (Illinois) Township High School, coming from a working class family, when he received a $250 college scholarship from the Lockport Woman’s Club.<a href="/sites/default/files/images/Robert_Carr_give_back.png" class="colorbox"><img alt="Robert Carr and students at a Give Something Back Foundation event. Carr’s organization partners with universities and colleges in Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of Give Something Back Foundation.) " class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/Robert_Carr_give_back-250x166.png" style="float: right; width: 250px; height: 166px;" width="250" height="166" /></a></p>
<p>“The $250 to me (meant) somebody believed in me,” Carr said, years later, “and wanted me to go to college. It meant the world to me."</p>
<p>Inspired, Carr came to the University of Illinois and earned a bachelor’s in <a href="http://www.math.illinois.edu/">mathematics</a> in 1966 and a master’s in 1967 studying under computer science professor David J. Kuck while working on the ILLIAC IV project. In 1997, he founded a payments processing company, Heartland Payment Systems, a Fortune 1000 company that grew and thrived under his leadership. In April 2016, Global Payments bought the business for $4.3 billion.</p>
<p>Do the math, and somewhere between $250 and $4.3 billion you might utter an even bigger understatement than the first: A little bit can make a big difference. To really understand the impact of what the Lockport Woman’s Club did for Carr, however, consider this number: 1,000.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/Robert_Carr_check.png" class="colorbox"><img alt="Robert Carr, then a senior at Lockport (Illinois) Township High School, receives a $250 scholarship from the Lockport Woman’s Club. The award eventually inspired Carr to help young people of modest means reach college. (Image courtesy of Give Something Back Foundation.)" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/Robert_Carr_check-250x166.png" style="float: left; width: 250px; height: 166px;" width="250" height="166" /></a>That’s roughly the number of scholarships pre-funded by the Give Something Back Foundation, founded by Carr in 2003, for academically driven students of modest means who assume college is not an option. Under the Give Back program, Pell Grant-eligible students are selected in the 9th grade, mentored throughout high school, and then attend a partner university or college with the opportunity to graduate in four years with no debt for tuition and fees or room and board.</p>
<p>“I decided many years ago to give back to the Lockport Woman’s Club that gave me a scholarship. And that’s how it all got started,” Carr said.</p>
<p>Carr came back to U of I on Nov. 29, Giving Tuesday, to present a check for $1 million to Chancellor Robert Jones to provide scholarships to fully fund 50 academically driven students of modest means at Illinois. Give Back partners with universities and colleges in Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/Robert_Carr.png" class="colorbox"><img alt="Robert Carr (Photo courtesy of Give Something Back Foundation.)" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/Robert_Carr-300x420.png" style="float: right; width: 300px; height: 420px;" width="300" height="420" /></a>“The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a treasure as an elite institution of learning,” Carr said. “My life was transformed there and inspired me to want to give back to other working-class kids. I am honored to extend this life-changing experience to future generations of working-class scholars via the Give Something Back Foundation.”</p>
<p>How successful has the foundation been? Here’s another number: 90 percent. That’s the percent of Give Back scholars who go on to earn a college degree. Here’s yet another number: 100 percent. That’s the employment rate of Give Back alumni with college degrees.</p>
<p>Carr knows, however, that when a student didn’t expect to attend college in the first place, the full impact of a scholarship can’t be quantified.</p>
<p>“It really fueled me to succeed, graduate from college in four years, and with a high grade point average so that I could move on and break that cycle in my family of no one ever graduating from college,” said Frances Brodeur, one of Give Back's first scholarship recipients, who is now a mentor and staff member for the organization. “After I got the Give Back scholarship, five family members graduated from college. And now it is the norm in my family.”</p>
<p><em>Dave Evensen, College of LAS</em></p>
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</ul>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:11:06 +0000colinr3496 at http://cs.illinois.eduTwo PhD students attend prestigious academic career workshophttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/two-phd-students-attend-prestigious-academic-career-workshop
<div class="field-item even">Laura Schmitt</div><p>CS @ ILLINOIS doctoral researchers <a href="https://risingstars.ece.cmu.edu/motahhare-eslami/">Motahhare Eslami</a> and <a href="https://risingstars.ece.cmu.edu/wenxuan-zhou/">Wenxuan Zhou</a> were among the 60 young women engineers and computer scientists worldwide who attended the <a href="https://risingstars.ece.cmu.edu/">2016 Rising Stars</a> academic career-building workshop at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) October 30 – November 1. In its fourth year, Rising Stars provides women graduate students with the mentoring and practical information they need to launch and sustain a successful academic career.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/Wenxuan%20Zhou%20CS%20Rising%20Star2016.jpg" class="colorbox"><img alt="Wenxuan Zhou" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/Wenxuan%20Zhou%20CS%20Rising%20Star2016-200x199.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 199px;" width="200" height="199" /></a>&nbsp;“The workshop was eye-opening,” said Zhou, who enjoyed networking and sharing experiences with many other women graduate students. &nbsp;“We got practical experience and tutorials on applying for faculty jobs, including how to write research and teaching statements, how to interview, and how to negotiate.”</p>
<p>Led by CMU faculty, the workshop also taught the young women how to navigate the promotion process and build a professional support network.</p>
<p>According to Eslami, one of the most beneficial aspects of the workshop for her was learning how to navigate job interviews and the hiring process. “I learned that in an interview people might ask women discriminatory questions that they’re not supposed to ask,” she explained. “For example, they cannot ask you if you have children. The CMU faculty panel told us how to handle these situations and questions appropriately.”</p>
<p>Each of the Rising Star participants also presented her research to fellow students, industry attendees, and CMU faculty. Another valuable aspect of the workshop for Zhou was discovering that being a professor isn’t an impossible feat.</p>
<p>“People think that being a professor is very daunting and you have no time to rest, but during the workshop one professor [talked about] doing three start-up companies as a young faculty member,” said Zhou, who works part time as a software engineer at <a href="http://www.veriflow.net/">Veriflow</a>, a start-up company her advisor <a href="http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~caesar/">Matthew Caesar</a> co-founded in 2013. “It was inspiring to know that you can do other things while being a faculty member.”</p>
<p>Zhou, whose research focuses on network verification and synthesis, plans to graduate in 2017, work full time for Veriflow for a couple of years, and then pursue a faculty position at a leading university.</p>
<p>Eslami, who works in Professor <a href="http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/">Karrie Karahalios’ group</a> conducting research on people’s behavior with online social media platforms like Facebook, encourages her fellow CS students to attend the workshop next year or beyond.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/Motahhare%20Eslami_1.jpg" class="colorbox"><img alt="Motahhare Eslami" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/Motahhare%20Eslami_1-240x242.jpg" style="margin: 5px; width: 240px; float: right; height: 242px;" width="240" height="242" /></a>“Besides all the things you can learn about academic careers, you might even be recruited at the workshop,” said Eslami, who recently led a headline-making study on Facebook curation algorithms that filter every user’s friends’ posts.</p>
<p>Applications for the 2017 Rising Stars workshop will be available in the spring. Students can learn more about the program by visiting the <a href="https://risingstars.ece.cmu.edu/">2016 Rising Stars website</a> or searching for the 2017 Rising Stars workshop in the spring—the 2017 website will become accessible once a location for the workshop has been determined.</p>
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</ul>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:36:30 +0000lschmitt3495 at http://cs.illinois.eduDonald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture in Computer Science: Ronitt Rubinfeldhttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/donald-b-gillies-memorial-lecture-computer-science-ronitt-rubinfeld
<div class="field-item even">Colin Robertson, CS @ ILLINOIS</div><p>Is it really necessary to solve the entire computational problem, if one is only interested in small parts of the output at any given time? Is it even necessary to view the whole input? In the <a href="/news/featured-lectures/donald-b-gillies-memorial-lecture">Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture in Computer Science</a>, Professor Ronitt Rubinfeld will survey recent work in local computational algorithms, describing results on a variety of problems for which sublinear time and space local computation algorithms have been developed. The lecture will take place at&nbsp;<a href="http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/5598?eventId=33237553">4 pm on December 5</a>, in 2405 Siebel Center.&nbsp; A live stream of this talk will be available at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__illinois.edu_emailer_forward2_6630661-3FemailAddress-3Djdg5-40illinois.edu-26orderId-3D4&amp;d=DQMFaQ&amp;c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&amp;r=8nGa3BqGu5Z2Mn2CZROrY0PzUtUGeUeDTt14YSXIMpE&amp;m=m6zZ2DjePdQWZZj-6Aj5hxhZCraQpbsbPiVoQSRlagA&amp;s=8UDN5x7MoCcy2IHWpad0fSJjkF6epOT-iB9GoYDSXX8&amp;e=" target="_blank" title="Gillies 2016 live stream">go.cs.illinois.edu/Gillies2016.</a></p>
<p><strong>Local Computation Algorithms</strong></p>
<p>Consider a setting in which inputs to and outputs from a computational problem are so large, that there is not time to read them in their entirety. However, if one is only interested in small parts of the output at any given time, is it really necessary to solve the entire computational problem? Is it even necessary to view the whole input?</p>
<p>We survey recent work in the model of local computation algorithms which for a given input, supports queries by a user to values of specified bits of a legal output.&nbsp; The goal is to design local computation algorithms in such a way that very little of the input needs to be seen in order to determine the value of any single bit of the output.</p>
<p><strong><img alt="Ronitt Rubinfeld" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/images/DLS_Rubinfeld_200x200.png" style="float: left; width: 200px; height: 200px;" width="200" height="200" /></strong>In this talk, we describe results on a variety of problems for which sublinear time and space local computation algorithms have been developed — we will give special focus to finding maximal independent sets and sparse spanning graphs.</p>
<p><strong>Bio:</strong> Ronitt Rubinfeld joined the MIT faculty in 2004, and is on the faculty at the University of Tel Aviv. Her research interests include randomized algorithms and computational complexity. She co-initiated the fields of Property Testing and Sub-linear time algorithms, providing the foundations for measuring the performance of algorithms that analyze data without looking at all of it.&nbsp; In particular, her work on Linearity Testing has helped build a bridge between Computational Complexity, Analysis of Boolean Functions, and Additive Combinatorics.&nbsp; Rubinfeld has been an ONR Young Investigator, a Sloan Fellow, an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, and is an ACM Fellow.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/Gillies_timePlace_2016-2_evite.png" class="colorbox"><img alt="" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/Gillies_timePlace_2016-2_evite-250x163.png" style="float: right; width: 250px; height: 163px;" width="250" height="163" /></a><strong>About the Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture</strong><br />
The Lecture honors the memory of Professor Donald B. Gillies. He was among the first mathematicians to become involved in the computer field, helping to calculate the first Sputnik orbit and later discovering three new prime numbers in the course of checking out ILLIAC II. Before his death in 1975, he was experimenting with educational uses and networking possibilities of minicomputers. See the <a href="/news/featured-lectures/donald-b-gillies-memorial-lecture" target="_blank">webpage</a> for additional information.</p>
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</ul>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:21:31 +0000colinr3494 at http://cs.illinois.eduTorrellas Elected AAAS Fellowhttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/torrellas-elected-aaas-fellow
<div class="field-item even">Liz Ahlberg Touchstone, Illinois News Bureau</div><p>CS Professor <a href="/directory/profile/torrella">Josep Torrellas</a> is one of six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected 2016 fellows of the <a href="http://www.aaas.org" target="_blank">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/default/files/images/torrellas_josep-investiture.png" class="colorbox"><img alt="Josep Torrellas" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/resize/images/torrellas_josep-investiture-250x229.png" style="float: right; width: 250px; height: 229px;" width="250" height="229" /></a>Torrellas, the Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science, was recognized for “distinguished contributions to the field of computer architecture, particularly for designs of shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation.” He is the director of the Center for Programmable Extreme Scale Computing and his research explores new processor, memory and system technologies and organizations to build novel multiprocessor computer architectures.</p>
<p>Torrellas and fellow U. of I. faculty Jianjun Cheng (Materials Science and Engineering), Brian T. Cunningham (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Kevin T. Pitts (Physics), Bruce L. Rhoads (Geography and Geographic Information Science), and Chad M. Rienstra (Chemistry) are among the 391 new fellows chosen for their efforts to advance science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.</p>
<p>“These members of our faculty exemplify the extraordinary scholarship, innovation and teaching that defines Illinois,” said Edward Feser, the interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at the U. of I. “They are leaders in their fields who have made highly significant contributions to their disciplines and the academy. We are proud they are our colleagues.”</p>
<p>Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society. Fellows are chosen by their peers for their outstanding contributions to the field. The new fellows will be honored at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.</p>
<p><em>See the full Illinois News Bureau <a href="https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/432131">article</a>.</em></p>
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</ul>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:54:13 +0000colinr3493 at http://cs.illinois.eduChang creating tools that listen to social universehttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/chang-creating-tools-listen-social-universe
<div class="field-item even">Laura Schmitt</div><p>Passionate about applying research results to the real world, CS @ ILLINOIS faculty member <a href="/directory/profile/kcchang">Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang</a> co-founded Cazoodle based on technology developed in his lab nearly 10 years ago. Cazoodle creates new and better search engines—like the online funding search and recommendation service GrantForward used by more than 200 universities and research institutions—by enabling deep data-aware vertical web searching that can crawl and transform unstructured HTML content into structured databases.</p>
<p><img alt="Kevin Chang" class="captionme" src="/sites/default/files/Chang_kevin-200x267.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 267px; float: right;" width="200" height="267" />According to Chang, the real world is not only a playground to apply research results but also a great source for inspiring more research. Through his entrepreneurial experience, Chang identified several research problems that have led to new research funding.</p>
<p>“In one instance, we wanted to see how the world responds to Cazoodle via social media, but it’s just too hard to try to crawl, filter, and process the social media to get the relevant signals,” he explained. “There ought to be an easier way.”</p>
<p>Recently, Chang received a three-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to pursue research on making such listening to the social universe easy. He and his students will develop SocialSense, a social media data platform that may fulfill the promise of gathering deep meaning and actionable information from the vast and noisy social universe. By initially focusing on Twitter users and messages, SocialSense will provide new insights for market research, emergency management, political analysis, finance, and science.</p>
<p>“Billions of messages are generated, but you can only search Tweets by key words,” said Chang, noting that such a search results in a list of individual Tweets. “In order to exploit the social universe, you really want to see a big picture of what people think about [a topic] and a single Tweet isn’t useful.”</p>
<p>According to Chang, SocialSense will focus on two underexplored research issues—discovery and profiling. Discovery involves figuring out which users and Tweets to listen to out of the 300 million users and the 500 million messages generated each day. Once SocialSense figures out who to listen to, the system will search for commonalities among the message senders—the profiling aspect of the research, to answer questions like ‘what types of users like iPhone 7,’ or ‘who supports the Obamacare policy.’</p>
<p>In many instances, users don’t provide demographic data about themselves nor do they use Twitter’s GPS tags in their tweets so Chang’s system will have to algorithmically find and infer those and other relevant attributes by identifying social motifs or metagraphs, which form patterns of similarity among users.</p>
<p>In order to test the effectiveness of SocialSense, Chang will work with researchers from the Advanced Digital Science Center in Singapore, who will help implement the software framework with that country’s ambitious <a href="http://www.smartnation.sg" target="_blank">Smart Nation project</a>.&nbsp; Together, they’ll be able to address issues like why people in certain districts of the city-state don’t use public transportation.</p>
<p>Chang is also developing algorithms that address content-centric social discovery—identifying only those Tweets that are relevant to a specified topic. His approach, which incorporates Bayesian techniques, will hinge on a content graph that captures how tweets, queries, and their templates inter-relate on an iterative reasoning process. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Chang will test the effectiveness of SocialSense’s content-centric discovery through a collaboration with Professor Shaowen Wang at the Cyber Geographic Information Science and Systems (CyberGIS) at Illinois. The two will use Tweets to create enhanced social maps that not only identify points of interest, but also relay information about the people who live there. For example, by collecting Tweets from Siebel Center, they can discover that there are young people in the building who care about coding.</p>
<p>Another research problem that Chang identified from his business experience revolved around how difficult it was to use a database for Cazoodle’s enterprise management system. Chang improvised an invoice and payment solution for his company by programming a spreadsheet. However, he parlayed this experience into a <a href="/news/illinois-team-lands-major-nsf-funding-bring-spreadsheets-big-data-era">second NSF research grant worth $1.8 million</a> to bring spreadsheets and databases together for interactive big data management.</p>
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</ul>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:32:38 +0000lschmitt3492 at http://cs.illinois.eduCS set to honor four distinguished faculty with named chairs and professorshipshttp://cs.illinois.edu/news/cs-set-honor-four-distinguished-faculty-named-chairs-and-professorships
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<p>One of the highest honors the campus can bestow, named <a href="/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-and-professorships">chairs and professorships</a> acknowledge outstanding faculty research, service, and education accomplishments. In the coming weeks, four CS faculty—<a href="/directory/profile/sadve">Sarita V. Adve</a>, <a href="/directory/profile/daf">David A. Forsyth</a>, <a href="/directory/profile/kale">Laxmikant “Sanjay” Kale</a>, and <a href="/directory/profile/torrella">Josep Torrellas</a>—will receive these titles thanks to the generosity of CS alumni and friends.</p>
<p>On <a href="http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2654/33249138">November 29</a>, Sarita Adve will be invested as the Richard T. Cheng Professor in Computer Science, while David A. Forsyth will be invested as the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science. On <a href="http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2654?eventId=33249140">December 15</a>, the department will celebrate the investiture of Laxmikant “Sanjay” Kale as the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in Computer Science and the investiture of Josep Torrellas as the Saburo Muraga Professor in Computer Science.</p>
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<p><strong>About the Richard T. Cheng Professsorship</strong></p>
<p>An influential educator who founded the computer science departments at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Old Dominion University, Richard T. Cheng (MS CS '69, PhD '71) established a professorship in 2015 to help CS @ ILLINOIS retain and attract talented faculty. Earlier in his career, Cheng founded ECI Systems &amp; Engineering. At its peak, the Virginia-based company was a leading integrated systems provider for the U.S. military and government, with annual sales of $50 million, more than 500 employees, and 32 offices around the world. In 2011, Cheng received the College of Engineering at Illinois Alumni Award for Distinguished Service for his outstanding leadership in education and in business.</p>
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<p><strong>Sarita V. Adve: The Richard T. Cheng Professorship in Computer Science</strong></p>
<p>For years, the memory consistency model, which affects a computer’s programmability and performance, was one of the most challenging and contentious areas in concurrent hardware and software specification. One solution, sequential consistency, was the simplest to program, but most systems did not provide it for performance reasons.</p>
<p>Instead, the solution was to have divergent models—often ambiguously specified—for different hardware. That is, until CS Professor Sarita V. Adve helped bring the hardware and software communities together to address the problem.</p>
<p>Adve’s early work, with her advisor Mark Hill, departed from the prevalent hardware-centric approaches to use a combined hardware/software view more appropriate for an interface. She observed that for well-synchronized programs, which she formalized as data-race-free, both sequential consistency and high performance could be achieved. That work observed that for well-synchronized programs, formalized as data-race-free, both sequential consistency and high performance could be achieved. Over several years, Adve worked closely with hardware and software researchers and practitioners to forge consensus towards adopting the data-race-free model as the standard. Today, this model is the foundation of the memory models for most of the popular programming languages such as Java, C++, and C.</p>
<p>In collaboration with industry and other Illinois researchers, Adve has also explored hardware resiliency.&nbsp; Her SWAT project was one of the first to develop a very low-cost comprehensive resiliency framework that detects, diagnoses, and recovers from several fault types. This work is often credited for making software-driven solutions widely accepted as a promising approach for hardware resiliency.</p>
<p>Adve has also made key contributions to low-power systems. She and her collaborators at Illinois were among the first to recognize that significant power reductions required breaking traditional system boundaries in favor of a cross-layer system-wide power management framework. Her GRACE project was the first to demonstrate a prototype where the hardware, operating system, network, and applications adapted collaboratively to minimize energy while meeting quality-of-service requirements.</p>
<p>Adve’s recent work, with Vikram Adve, has challenged the research community to rethink the design of parallel languages and hardware. Inspired by trends in disciplined parallel programming, her DeNovo project has developed cache coherence protocols and communication architectures that are simpler, higher performance, and lower energy.</p>
<p>A member of the CRA Board of Directors and chair of ACM SIGARCH, Adve is a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE. She is also a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award in the Innovation category and the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award.</p>
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<p><strong>About the Fulton Watson Copp Chair</strong></p>
<p>Established with a gift from the namesake’s estate, the Fulton Watson Copp Chair recognizes a faculty member who is an internationally renowned leader in computer science, has an ongoing research program central to the mission of the department, and is a prominent educator with a reputation for outstanding, innovative teaching.</p>
<p>Fulton Copp earned his BS in electrical engineering in 1925. He was a member of the ROTC and served in the U.S. Calvary. Early in his career he managed a gold mine in the Sierras. During World War II, he served in the Corps of Engineers and was involved in the construction of Army hospitals and airfields in this country and the Pacific. He retired as a Lt. Col. from the reserves in 1962.</p>
<p>After the war, Mr. Copp was involved in the construction and management of natural gas pipelines in the U.S., Australia, and Canada. He was also worked on oil extraction from shale. He retired in 1972 from the Bechtel Corporation. Mr. Copp died in 1990.</p>
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<p><strong>David A. Forsyth: The Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science</strong></p>
<p>A leading researcher in computer vision, CS Professor David A. Forsyth has made distinctive contributions to human motion computing (detecting, understanding, and animating what people do), to how computers relate words and pictures, and to rendering objects into photographs.</p>
<p>Forsyth's group started the trend of attaching words to images by developing an award-winning model of object recognition as machine translation that could annotate image regions with words. More recent work in this area offered the first method to produce sentences that describe images; this, too, is now a hot topic. In collaboration with Professor Derek Hoiem, also of Illinois, Forsyth's group showed how to describe unfamiliar objects in pictures by computing their attributes. This is now a standard strategy in object recognition.</p>
<p>Forsyth's group has studied methods to analyze pictures and movies of people. He wrote important early papers which showed how to tell whether there were human nudes in a picture, now an important practical application. The group developed the first robust, accurate human tracker that can reliably report the configurations of arms and legs, and which does not need to be started by hand. The group also developed widely-cited methods for rearranging motion-capture data to produce highly-realistic human animations.</p>
<p>Forsyth’s recent work on realistically rendering synthetic objects into legacy photographs was widely covered (e.g., <em>Wired</em>, <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>Popular Science</em>, <em>New Scientist</em>, and <em>IEEE Spectrum</em>), and has resulted in three patents.</p>
<p>Forsyth is a highly visible educator in computer vision. His book, “Computer Vision: A Modern Approach,” (with Jean Ponce), is widely adopted as a course text, since it provides a unified vision of the field. Many ex-students are influential professors in computer vision, and two of his ex students have been awarded the Marr prize for work as professors.</p>
<p>Currently in a second term as Editor-in-Chief for <em>IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence</em>, Forsyth has regularly served as a program or general chair for the top conferences in computer vision.</p>
<p>A Fellow of the ACM (2014) and IEEE (2009), Forsyth has also been recognized with the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award (2005), the Marr Prize, and a prize for best paper in cognitive computer vision (ECCV 2002).</p>
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<p><strong>About the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professsorship</strong></p>
<p>The Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professorship in Computer Science was established in 2005 through the generosity of the late Gene H. Golub (B.S. Mathematics, 1953, M.S. Mathematical Statistics, 1954, Ph.D. Mathematics, 1959) in honor of his longstanding friendship with the Saylors.</p>
<p>Golub's influence on the theory and practice of scientific computing was profound, both through his vast range of technical research contributions and his professional leadership of the entire scientific computing community nationally and internationally.</p>
<p>Golub was a cofounder of the Stanford computer science department, and served on the Stanford faculty beginning in 1962 through the time of his death in November of 2007. He was a member of both the National Academy of Science and the National Academy of Engineering. His founding of NA-Net and NA-Digest helped unify the worldwide numerical analysis community.</p>
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<p><strong>Laxmikant “Sanjay” Kale: The Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professorship in Computer Science</strong></p>
<p>An expert in parallel programming, CS Professor Laxmikant “Sanjay” Kalé has developed tools and abstractions that make parallel computing easier and&nbsp;more efficient for scientists and engineers who model complex problems in epidemiology, quantum chemistry, biophysics, and astronomy.</p>
<p>He pioneered the idea of a powerful, introspective and adaptive runtime system to simplify parallel programming of complex applications and to automate resource management. To enable such adaptivity, he developed a class of parallel programming models based on over-decomposition, migratability, and asynchrony. His research group developed the Charm++ parallel programming system embodying these ideas. Charm++ has a 20- year track record of delivering high performance on systems ranging from single workstations to the largest supercomputers in the world. Charm++ is one of the few academically developed parallel programming systems that is used to solve real-world problems.</p>
<p>Using Charm++, he has developed many collaborative parallel applications, including Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD), with the late Illinois Biophysics Professor Klaus Schulten. NAMD was used for the world’s first simulation of the precise chemical structure of the HIV capsid—a major breakthrough in the understanding of the deadly virus.</p>
<p>Kalé’s group has collaborated to develop applications such as ChaNGa, which enables astronomers to study the origins and evolution of the universe, and OpenaAtom, which enables studies of quantum-mechanical details of photovoltaic materials, which may lead to better solar cells. The EpiSimdemics project simulates the spread of contagions like the H1N1 and Ebola viruses as they propagate through populations and the impact of potential interventions on the spread of the contagion.</p>
<p>Prof. Kalé’s research interests include higher level parallel programming abstractions, dynamic load balancing, fault tolerance, energy optimization in parallel computing, structured and unstructured mesh computations with dynamic refinements, parallel discrete event simulation, simulations of future parallel machines, performance analysis, and sustainable development of software in academia.</p>
<p>A fellow of IEEE, Kalé has received the 2002 ACM Gordon Bell Prize (with his co-authors) and the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award (with Klaus Schulten). He and his team won the HPC Challenge award at Supercomputing 2011, for their entry based on Charm++. He also co-edited the book&nbsp;<em>Parallel Science and Engineering Applications: The Charm++ Approach.</em></p>
<p><strong>Josep Torrellas: The Saburo Muroga Professorship in Computer Science</strong></p>
<p>A pioneer in parallel computer architectures, CS Professor Josep Torrellas has made important contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor design, including in cache hierarchies, coherence protocols, synchronization, consistency models, and thread-level speculation. These contributions make it easier to program parallel computers while enhancing their performance.</p>
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<p>Established by Douglas B. MacGregor (MS CS '80) to provide significant recognition of an outstanding faculty member, the Saburo Muroga Professorship in Computer Science honors the late Professor Muroga for his service and dedication to students as manifested through exemplary teaching and guidance. After earning a PhD from Kyoto University in 1990, MacGregor became an executive with Data General Corporation and Dell, formed a multi-million dollar joint venture with Matsushita, and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School.</p>
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<p>In addition, his work has improved the energy efficiency of multiprocessor architectures. He has devised techniques to handle process variation and wear-out, and to reduce the power consumption of extreme-scale computer systems.</p>
<p>Torrellas has contributed to several leading industry–government research projects in novel parallel computer architectures. These include the Illinois Aggressive Cache Only Memory Architecture (IACOMA), which was one of the 10 Point-Design Studies funded by the federal government in the 1990s to accelerate the development of peta-scale supercomputers. He also led the DARPA-funded M3T Polymorphic Computer Architecture and codirected the NSF-funded FlexRAM Intelligent Memory project.</p>
<p>Torrellas was one of the principal investigators in the DARPA-funded IBM PERCS multiprocessor project, which led to the initial design of the Blue Waters supercomputer. He was also a co-leader of the DARPA- and DOE-funded Intel Runnemede multiprocessor, a 1000-core extreme-scale chip developed under the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing program. Before that, Torrellas contributed to the Stanford DASH and Illinois Cedar experimental multiprocessors.</p>
<p>Today, Torrellas is the director of the Center for Programmable Extreme-Scale Computing, which focuses on developing programmable, high performance, and very energy-efficient computers. He has been the director of the Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC), whose aim was to promote parallel computing. In that center, he has worked with Intel to prototype deterministic replay multiprocessor hardware and developed the novel Bulk Multicore concept.</p>
<p>Torrellas is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. He has received the 2015 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award and the 2012 ICCD High-Impact Paper Award, among other awards and honors. He has graduated more than 35 doctoral students, of which 13 are faculty in top CS and ECE departments across the nation.</p>
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